Pere Portabella
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Pere Portabella at IFFR
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Die Stille vor Bach
A new film in the unique oeuvre of the Barcelonan outsider Portabella is about Bach. With lots of his music, but it’s the opposite of an ordinary biop
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El sopar
Five political activists discuss their experiences in and outside prison – clandestinely. A key masterpiece of cinematic activism. Screens together wi
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Miró l’altre
A documentary about a temporary art work by Joan Miró discretely turns into an essay on Catalan anti-Franco activism in the late 1960s. Screens before
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Vampir – Cuadecuc
Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of trash-meister Jess Franco’s enjoyably mediocre El conde Dracula (1970) gives a decidedly different ironic
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La tempesta
Bodies, water, the music of Gioachino Rossini: a hearty cinematic symphony of spectacular beauty and sensuality.
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Informe general II. El nuevo rapto de Europa
A cinematographic symposium on the current political crisis of parliamentary democracy and the nation-state, how neoliberalist capitalism thrives on t
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Informe general sobre unas cuestiones de interés para una proyección pública
On 20 November 1975, Francisco Franco dies. On 15 June 1977, Spain holds free elections for the first time in decades. What happens in this roughly ye
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Pont de Varsòvia
How did that dead scuba diver get into the treetop? Why is it so difficult for the author to explain what is happening in his novel Pont de Varsòvia?
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Umbracle
Christopher Lee walks through an almost unbearably sunny, yet for the most part curiously empty, Barcelona. Critics discuss censorship. A long excerpt
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Tren de sombras: le spectre de Le Thuit
Mysterious fake found-footage film and game with cinematographic emotions,about the disappearance of a lawyer in Paris at the turn of the twentieth ce